Chinese

Inner thoughts

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(Lin's POV)

I exited my car once I had parked it in the parking lot next to the SPR vans. I grabbed my jacket and climbed the stairs that lead to the office door. Looking at my watch I opened the door and walked in, as I did I heard the others talking in the main room. I then walked to my office and set my jacket down on the desk, when I heard my office door open and close. I turned around only to come face to face with Madoka, as I looked at her I could tell that she was angry and that an argument was about to start.

"What the hell was that earlier? Why did you tell me that is none of my business?" She said as she placed her hands on her hip.

I responded in a monotone voice, "Madoka you have no right to ask who I talk to our relationship ended two months after we returned to England with Eugene's body. You know that you're the one that broke it off and I agreed to it and I am fine with it so don't ask me questions that you have no right to ask. Now please leave my office, I have to put some things away." I turned my back to as I finished talking, and started to clean the shelf off so I could put my books there.

"Ugh!" She shouted as she walked out of my office slamming the door. It was then that I realized that once she took a step into my office all the talking from the rest of the group stopped. I quickly finished cleaning and putting away my items in the proper places when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." I said as I placed the last book on the shelf. This time when I turned around there stood Noll. "What is it Noll?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to inform you that tomorrow we are having a meeting with a client, and to be prepared for anything. Also can you make me some tea?" Noll said and I acknowledged what he was saying and as I nodded my head, agreeing that I will make him some tea. Soon after I shook my head, he left the room to go back to his office. Knowing that Noll would like to have his tea as soon as possible I exited my office and headed towards the small kitchenette noting that the others had left already. I then proceeded to make his tea, taking note that there was some Earl Gray on the counter I grabbed it and put in a cup as I waited for the water to boil. Once it was boiled I poured some water into the cup and let it seep, I placed the kettle on a warmer and took the cup to Noll. I knocked on the door and waited till I heard him say, "Enter." After entering his office I placed the cup down on his desk and turned to walk out of the room when Noll said, "Why didn't you tell me you heard her confession when we were at the lake?"

"I didn't tell you because I thought you would tell me on your own, but you never did. Did you know that I only got one email from Mai, and that was almost a year after we Returned to England, in the email she told me that the others had abandoned her after they said they wouldn't. She also gave a hint that her powers had grown and she was hopping to get help, but I never received another email from her saying if she was alright or not." I said as I turned to look at him while I crossed my arms across my chest. I watched as his face slightly drained of color and his eyes widened at hearing her powers had grown and that the others abandoned her.

"Why didn't she contact me?" Noll asked as he waited for me to respond.

"She probably didn't want to bother you, she probably thought that you would just consider it troublesome. Or she could have still been heart broken and didn't want to talk to you because of what you said to her. Who knows why she didn't get in contact with you?" I said as I watched him nod his head and then look down at his desk and wave his hand as if dismissing me. I then turned and left his office as I noticed that it was time to close shop and head home. I then turned and poked my head in Noll's office and said, "Noll it is time to close up and head home. See you tomorrow."

As I turned away from him, he said, "Wait where are you going I thought we were staying together."

I turned to face him and said, "No I will not be staying with you this time, and yes your parents know about this they said that it was okay, but you will be staying next door to Madoka so if you need anything, just call her."

"Well then Lin have a good night, and see you in the morning." Said Noll as he stood up and grabbed his keys and followed me out of the office.

I turned and asked him, "Do you need a ride to your place?"

"No my mother made sure that it is next door to the office." Said Noll as he was locking the front door.

"Okay then have a good night." I said as I unlocked the car and got in and started it. As I pulled out I notice Noll staring at the car, I let a smirk show as I waved good bye and started my drive back to the house.

The next morning when I got up I smelled breakfast being made, and once I was changed, I quickly went to the kitchen to see who was here. When I walked in I found one of my shiki making me breakfast, and before I could say anything he said, "Mistress asked me to make sure you eat when you get up in the morning." I noticed that it was Crow making breakfast. I found myself laughing inside my head as I thought, "Of course she gets the one most attached to her to do this, and he is the strongest of all my shiki who was originally a demon."

I looked at him as I sat down at the island and was happy that Mayune had them make food for me so I wouldn't be hungry later. "Thank you Crow, is there anything else Mayune is asking you to do?"

"Yes to make sure that when you don't have a case that you have a lunch to take with you to work, and the one for today is in the fridge. The mistress really cares about you, I am happy for you, I am also happy that she is someone very nice to us shiki." He said as he served me my food and once I was done he handed me a thermos filled with coffee along with my lunch. I nodded my head in thanks and smiled as I grabbed my keys and started to head to the office. When I got there I parked in the same spot as the day before and quickly turned the car off, and then headed up to the office. I then unlocked the door and put the open sign in the window and went over to the kitchen. I then noticed that the warmer had been turned off, I quickly asked my shiki if they had done it and my one call song responded that she had done it when we had been getting ready to leave, after she told me what she did I thanked her. I then took the kettle over to the sink and emptied it out and put new water in it, and then I placed it on the stove and brought it to a boil and then yet again I set it on the warmer so it would stay hot till Noll got in. After I did that I headed towards my office and turned on the laptop that I had packed away, since it is my work computer.

I left the door to my office open to hear if anyone were to enter. A few minuets later I heard the door open and I quickly got up from my seat and saw Noll taking off his jacket and laying it over his arm. When he looked up, he saw me and was about to say something when I said, "Tea will be done shortly." At those words he nodded his head and retreated into his office. Right when his door shut, my cell phone started to ring, I pulled it out and saw that it was Mayune and quickly answered it as I slipped into speaking Chinese and said, "Good morning aìrén how are you doing."

"Oh nothing aìrén and I miss you, I can't wait to see you." Said Mayune as she spoke in Japanese signaling that the others in her group were not in the room with her. "Oh I have to go looks like your mom needs my help with some stuff. Good by...I love you I can't wait see you when I get there." As I heard my mother call to her in the back round. As I listened to her talk I let Noll's tea seep making by the time she said she had to go it was done seeping.

"I love you too good bye." I said in Chinese so Noll wouldn't understand if he could hear me. I then grabbed his cup and took it in to him and grabbed the one from yesterday and took it back to the kitchen and washed it. When I finished doing that I went back into my office and started to work on some files Noll's father sent me. I read all of the files and gave Martin my thoughts on each one. Five minuets later he emailed me back about my wedding in the email he asked me 'Lin does Noll know about your wedding?' I quickly emailed him saying that 'he doesn't and Mayune is still thinking if SPR should be invited or not.' Martin then responded and said 'okay I understand, I will see you at your wedding tell Mayune I say hi.' I wrote back 'I will and see you then as well." as I sent the last email the front door opened and in walked a woman that looked nervous. I walked up to her and asked, "Can I help you?"

"Oh...I have an appointment." She said as she looked around the room.

I nodded my head and said, "Have a seat I will get my boss and we will listen to what you are going through." As I said it she sat down on the chair. I then walked and knocked on Noll's door, I heard him say come in and I said, "Noll the client is here." Noll handed me his empty cup then stood up as I went back into my office to retrieve my laptop, before I sat down I asked the woman, "Would you like water, tea, or coffee Miss?"

"Oh Miss Shoko and yes some water please." She said as she fidgeted with the hem of her shirt. I nodded my and went and poured Noll another cup of tea and after I made the first one I just placed three tea bags to seep in the hot water for later. I then pored Miss Shoko a cup of water, and headed out to the sitting room where Noll waited for me to open a new word document.

Once I had one open with today's date on it Noll began to ask questions, "Miss Shoko why is it you have come to us?"

"I believe a building that I own is haunted." She said as she twisted her shirt slightly I sat there recording everything that was being said.

Noll then asked, "Can you go into details as to what is happening?"

The woman nodded her head and said, "Around twenty five years ago, my father owned the building, and at first the people who lived there thought that they were just loosing things, they would hear scratching on the wall when no one was there, but then people started to die, then one day a neighbor called the cops because they heard screaming next door, when the cops came they found that the whole family was slaughtered. At first I thought some killer had gotten in but then other families started to get killed, and at this time I was maybe eight years old and I over heard the cops saying that there was not a human alive that could do these killings, they said that it looked like they just exploded. After that, every five years there would be a family that would die, my father ended up closing down the apartments. During the time span that it wasn't open, there were a few calls about there being a window broken. Though when the cops checked the floor, they didn't find anything so the windows just kept being boarded up. Then when he died eight years ago I went to the building to see how bad of a condition it was in." As I typed what she was saying I became interested in the case as the woman continued to talk.

"But as I got to the third floor I smelt something disgusting, I followed it all the way to the last room and as I opened the door there was blood every where though before I ran out I saw a dark figure in the corner it was see through, and it didn't look human at all. After I saw that I ran out of the building and called the cops, when they got there I found out that one of the cops had worked on the cases when they first started to happen there. A few days later I put it up for sale and no one was wanting to buy it because of what happened there, then a two months ago a woman called saying that she was interested in buying the property but at a lower cost, because of what happened there. She said that since the building has been abandoned for so long there would have to be major work that would be needed to be done along with stopping whatever was there. I thought she was crazy and so I made a deal with her that if she could get rid of the thing that was doing this that I would sell it to her at the price she asked for. She called me back yesterday and I was stunned I thought she would give up, but she said that her and her team will be there in three days. And I had thought I had only seen the creature in my head until two nights ago when the creature came to my home while my children were asleep in the other room, and it said that blood would by spilled in the next month. So please help me, I don't want any more deaths or to let her win I don't even know if her company is legit, so here I am asking you for your help please take my case." Said the woman as she continued to shake. I was almost tempted to say no because she was being slightly greedy and only wanted our help to prevent a sale out at a lower price than she was asking.

To my astonishment Noll said, "We will be there in three day, can you get us three rooms to stay in and possibly three generators?"

The woman looked at Noll and said, "It depends on the floor literally in some places the floor is collapsing, so the best place would be either the second or the first floor or the third floor if you are up to it. Though I don't know what floor the other team is going to be on but it will be up to you. But I will be able to rent some generators so yes."

Noll looked at her and said, "Pleas provide your information to my assistant and we will see you in three days."

As the woman wrote her information for me and she kept saying, "Thank you so much." once she had written it down, she left the building.

"Lin could you call the others and tell them to be ready in three days and to be here at eight in the morning." Said Noll as he walked back into his office.

"I will get it done." I said as I walked into my office and sat at my desk. I then picked up the phone and called all of them. When I got to Yasuhara I told him to find any information that he could on this place as I gave him the address. He then told me that he will have everything he can find with him when he comes to the meeting. After I hung up the phone I felt my phone vibrate and saw that I received a text from Mayune saying that she would be in town in a couple days, I was happy to see that. Oh if I had only known where she was going to be.